Merak Magazine

Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini

Resistance Women is a well-researched, compelling novel that details life in Germany from the late 1920s through World War II. Since most World War II novels mainly take place during the war, Jennifer Chiaverini’s newest release offers a unique but insightful look into…

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Alternating back and forth in time, Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate is a heart wrenching fictionalized account of the horrifying real-life adoption scandal involving Georgia Tate and the Tennessee Children’s Home Society. In 1939, the Foss children are unscrupulously removed from their…

These pages of mine

“Those books. You’ve read them all?”   Yes. I’ve read them all. I’ve devoured the woven words and placed them in my shelf of memories, safe and to be remembered, always.  I’ve spent warm and breezy afternoons, piously making my…